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What last name do you think is neat? It could sound cool, have an interesting meaning or history, etc.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

My stage name is Witchfire. A lot of people think it's my real last name. I don't correct them.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

January

Idk why, I just thought that it sounds cool for a surname. I even have a cartoon character in my imagination that has it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

How has no one said McLovin??

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Met a guy with the surname "Case" and first name "Justin". Thought that was pretty cool

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

I also did but I thought it was kinda lame?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Doctor Solomonides. I'm absolutely terrible with names and it's stuck with me since I was a child.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

In high school I knew a guy named Mark Outlaw. Never have I heard a cooler name.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago

I knew this girl once whose surname was Δρακοπούλου (Drakopulu) that means "daughter of the dragon"

I think that's pretty fire idk about you guys

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

Dudemeister, went to school with a German guy with the last name. They also used it on scrubs https://scrubs.fandom.com/wiki/Keith_Dudemeister

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago
[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago

DeLeΓ²n

I have some family named Cambias, and learned it's because they lost their last names in the Spanish inquisition when they were forcibly converted to Christianity. Changed.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I met someone named McCool once. I thought that was pretty cool.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

that's too cool

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago

Cantalapiedra which can be roughly translated as: the stone that sings. Canta: sing La: the Piedra: stone

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago

Max Warman. Seriously.

Honestly you can Google anything like "best last name" and get some crazy nonsense, it's great.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago

I knew a girl whose last name was Fantasia. I always thought that was awesome

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

I worked on a ladies computer one time and her name was Judy Batman.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago

I worked with teacher named Mr. Zero for a year. He was super cool.

Also, if you haven't seen it, the Zero Effect is a solid movie with Ben Stiller and Bill Pullman. The latter plays Daryl Zero.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Growing up the local judge was a Power. So yes, Judge Power.

Always sounded like he was going to send you to the phantom zone or something.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Don't forget Max Power, the coolest name ever.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

β€œI got it off a hair dryer.”

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

I once worked with a guy with the last name of Fick (German for fuck) and a woman with the last name Lazarus. I found both quite cool. The guy in particular was very offensive with his name, always answering the phone with simply "Fick". I just looked him up and he has changed his last name, probably by marriage. I guess he found it unprofessional in the end.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It's common for German people to just answer the phone with their surname at work. He wasn't being offensive.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Well, ", hello?" is quite common. But just shouting Fick! when answering a call is always on purpose, no matter if it's your actual name.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I live in Germany, it's how people answer the phone here, often. Not everyone but a lot, no Hallo after, just name.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

I live in Germany as well and with a name like Fick, answering the phone in this manner is a statement.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

One of the IT people at my high school had a surname of "Code". He did write some code, but mainly KiXtart scripts.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Wow, I haven’t thought about kixtart in a long time!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

Same. I was in high school in the 2000s. They used KiXtart for the login scripts. Some friends and I figured out that if we pulled out the network cable at a particular point in the login process on the Windows 2000 school computers, we'd have access to some things we normally wouldn't have access to, like being able to access the WINNT directory and the root of the drive (which were usually locked down). That was fun.

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